The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

As long as we can’t see the 60 minutes episode, I figured I’d reup this little chestnut (have to wonder whether this underreported angle featured in the segment) open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

If it’s going to air later with just some extra interviews why is it necessary to take down all the promos? (rhetorical question)

The correspondent who reported the story, Sharyn Alfonsi, said in an internal memo that “the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship.” Bari Weiss weighed in with questions on Saturday morning, the two sources said. Alfonsi said Weiss “spiked the story.”

Here is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her ‘60 Minutes’ colleagues in full:

CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss pulled a 60 Minutes segment on allegations of abuses at an El Salvador detention center where the Trump administration sent hundreds of Venezuelan migrants. n.pr/4pagOTD

Also: see how Landry calls this a "volunteer position" that "in no way affects my position as Governor". He knows Louisiana officials can't take federal jobs: in 2020, that kept him from being Special Counsel to overturn the election. So Landry's saying now he'll take Greenland in his spare time. 5/

“It's an invisible need... an invisible center... helping invisible people. Meanwhile, I'm haunted by the invisible impact of the insatiable greed” @ricksteves.bsky.social I love you

See that’s the kind of talk that gets you buried in an unmarked grave on a second-rate golf course

Yep, this is the sum of it. A completely cynical state of affairs.

“It is something I’ve never encountered in all my work as an attorney,” Perez said. “It’s infuriating.”

We're bombing more boats.

Among the nominees just confirmed is Leo Brent Bozell III, a far-right activist and critic of the fight to end apartheid, who Collins just approved to be the United States AMBASSADOR TO SOUTH AFRICA. Vile and irredeemable. tinyurl.com/5fwv4dzc #MEpolitics

In Illinois, ICE agents have been documented swapping license plates to hide their identity. Under Illinois law, this constitutes a Class A misdemeanor. The state has made clear that this law will be enforced. Federal agents are not exempt from Illinois vehicle and registration statutes.

This is so fucking insane and disqualifying. Vance is a profoundly hollow man.

This feels a little too on the nose: Under Trump, America only wants people who don’t check facts www.npr.org/2025/12/04/n...

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects last year. (Published July 2024)

NOT GOOD 🫠 ‘the air traffic controller noted not seeing the military aircraft on their end, as it had the transponder off and was not transmitting its location. “We almost had a midair collision up here,” the pilot said, according to ATC recordings. "They passed directly in our flight path ..."’

Miller’s ancestor disembarked at Ellis Island and “‘found work in New York City peddling bananas and other fruit on street corners, and began sending small sums of money back to the family,’ reads an unpublished book about the family that one of Stephen Miller’s relatives shared w/The New Republic.”

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

"Counterintelligence specialists with deep expertise in countries like China, Russia, and Iran are now regularly working immigration cases." It's a bonanza for America's real enemies. Derek Owen and R.M. Schneiderman on the erosion of the FBI's capacity:

Mifepristone has been widely used in France since 1987 and in the US since 2000. It is a safe drug with an excellent track record. Don't let any Republican or an irresponsible journalist tell you otherwise.

really weird -- Margaret Brennen presses Bill Cassidy on why the White House isn't doing more to crack down on mifepristone and what he's doing to encourage them to do it

Good morning. Immigrants are #HereToStay.

Montana Republican Rep. Ryan Zinke says their plan is to “REDUCE OVERALL CARE” 🤔 At least he’s honest! #MedicareForAllNOW

School shootings in America are so common now that kids are going through it twice. I watched a video of a Parkland school shooting survivor in 2018 is now a Brown University survivor in 2025. I just can’t fathom that

Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...

Omaha residents face a hidden danger: the lead in their yards. The Trump administration’s new guidance on high levels of the toxic metal in soil has put tens of thousands of properties in limbo. With @flatwaterfreep.bsky.social

12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔 A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice. Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️

Extraordinary courage from Ahmed al Ahmed, a Muslim, 43-year-old father of two, who bravely risked his life to save his neighbors celebrating Hanukkah. Praying for his full & speedy recovery. And so deeply inspired by his example.

NEW: 9 ex-DOJ lawyers who resigned from antisemitism investigations into UCLA and other UC campuses say they were pressured to find UC guilty of violations in a rushed and politically motivated process. One called it a "fraudulent and sham investigation." www.latimes.com/california/s...

Alameda amassed nearly $400 million to transform an ex-naval base into a veterans clinic. The Trump administration torpedoed the project, declaring it dead without telling the people in charge.

Sure it makes sense They’re racists they are xenophobes and they want to commit cultural genocide by taking children away from people who aren’t white just like they have been doing until the 1970s everywhere in the world Ask the indigenous people in North America. Their children were taken away.

Earlier this year, JD Vance told us that Donald Trump was “the most pro-family, most pro-life American president of our lifetimes.” Yeah, about that. ICYMI @monacharen.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/3Yl0Tqn

Analysis | Zelensky says he wants a better peace deal. Until he starts buying $TRUMP coin, it’s hard to take him seriously.

How this Christmas will be different for single digit billionaires.

It's hard to know exactly what will happen now, given how unprecedented this is. But Trump and Miller envisioned this as a test of their ability to spread fear of lawless state terror. For now, the lower courts are admirably defending the rule of law. 5/5 newrepublic.com/article/2043...

The ACLU has posted 17 sworn declarations from people locked up at the Trump Adminstration's largest immigrant prison camp, at Fort Bliss in Texas. In World War Two, the same site was called the "Fort Bliss Enemy Alien Detention Station." Read the declarations here: www.aclu.org/documents/fo...

The Undocumented Underground Is Fighting Back Inside New York’s Notorious Immigration Court talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/new-...

one thing that doesn’t get enough coverage or comment with regards to this administration is it how much it hates the actually existing united states

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

ICYMI — “I identified myself as a U.S. citizen and a veteran, but that didn't matter. ICE Agents smashed my window, sprayed tear gas and pepper spray into my car, dragged me out… this experience violated the very principles I fought to defend.”

"When I said in February that they were going to cast a wide net for deportations, I had no idea how bad it would be. This is not just a matter of aggressive deportation. The things that are being done by our government to our fellow human beings are monstrous." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

When you hire a white man because they’re a white man that’s not identity politics. Identity politics is when you get hired and you’re not a white man. The anti wokeness hysteria was always a backlash to integration of white collar jobs bsky.app/profile/jami...